Improvement in breech-loading fire-arms



- A.. c. FAIVRE.

BREECI'I-LO-ADING FIREfARMS.

Patented Ja.n 11,1876.

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UNITED STATES PATENT GEEIGE.

ALEXANDER o. EAIvEE, 0E MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BR-EECHLOADING 'FIRE-ARMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 172,008, dated January 11, 1876; application tiled October 23, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER C. FAIVEE, of the city of.Meadville, in the county of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Breech-Loadin g Guns, of which the following' is a specification:

The object of my invention is to withdraw the breech-fulcrum from the end of the barrel or barrels ot' a gun, and with the same movement to draw back the hammers of the lock, and also to start back the cartridge case or cases from the barrels; and, to accomplish this movement with ease and rapidity,I make the piece B B to swing centrally to the two barrels on the pin L, the upper end being flattened to cover tightly the ends ot' the barrel or barrels, and is held rigidly in place by the eccentric C, (see Figure 1,) where the dotted lines show the hammerK as it strikes the pin M in the act ot' firing, the eccentric C being held in place by the spring I.

Fig. 2 shows the same parts open and the cartridge E in the line ot' its Withdrawal or introduction into the barrel. The-cartridgestarter D is made to partly embrace the heads of both cartridges, and thus draw them both at once. The pawl F is recessed into B,which, when drawn back, catches under D and forces it out till the point passes below, and then allows D to be pushed back over the top of F, which is forced into its recess, and is again 'thrown out by the spring G. Thereis astrong spring, H, which throws the lower end of B forward as soon as the eccentric is drawn back by the thumb-piece N-that is, as soon as the point O on C passes the point P on B.

There is a boss, J, on each side of the eccentric C, which carries back the hammers of the locks and sets them at half or full cock, ac-

cording as they (the bosses) may be placed on C. (See Figs. 1 and 2.)

The operation is as follows The cartridges being pushed into the barrels, B is drawn back by the hand-piece R at the lower end till the breech S is closed against the ends of the bar` 4C is drawn back by the thumb-piece N till the points O and P again pass, when. the spring H draws B into the position in Fig. 2, having started out the cartridge-holder D by the pawl I, and the hammers K by the bosses J.

I claim as my inventionl. In a breech-loading gun, the combination of the lever B and eccentric C, for holding a rigid fulcrum to the ends of the barrels, when made as described and shown'.

2. The spring-pawl F, so constructed and combined with the breech-block and retractor that when the breech-block is fully opened the retractor is automatically disengaged from the spring-pawl and left free to move back into position upon the pressing in of new cartridges.

3. The combination of the bosses J and the eccentric C, for drawing back the hammers of the locks, substantially as described.

A. C. FAIVRE. Witnesses:

THos. S. MINNIss, p J. N. McCLosKEY. 

